Rob Whiteman CBE is a retired public sector leader, most latterly the Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), from September 2013 to June 2024. [1]
Before moving to CIPFA, Whiteman was a Senior Civil Servant in the British Civil Service working as the Chief Executive of the UK Border Agency.[2]
Prior to this role he was the managing director of the local government Improvement & Development Agency (IDeA), a job he had been appointed to in 2010. Between 2005 and 2010 he worked in local government as the Chief Executive of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council. A qualified Chartered Public Finance Accountant (CPFA), previously he was the Director of Resources at the London Borough of Lewisham.[3]
As a non-executive, since July 2022 he is Chair of University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, having held several other NHS appointments.[4] He has served as a Technical Advisor to the Board of the International Federation of Accounts (IFAC), with previous roles including Chair of Audit and Board Member at the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)[5]
References
edit- ^ "Rob Whiteman leaves Home Office for new Chief Executive role". GOV.UK. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- ^ "News and communications". GOV.UK. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- ^ "Rob Whiteman - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 3 September 2013.
- ^ University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust appoints new Chair
- ^ "Rob Whiteman". 4 June 2014.